Subject: resignation following the Draft agenda of Collaboration Board meeting Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:45:03 +0100 (CET) From: Jaap Panman To: Friedrich DYDAK CC: HARP-institute representatives -- Vladimir AMMOSOV , Marco APOLLONIO , Milla BALDO CEOLIN , Giles BARR , Alain BLONDEL , Maurizio BONESINI , Chris BOOTH , Stepan BUNYATOV , Craig BUTTAR , Maria Gabriella CATANESI , Enrico Di CAPUA , Ubaldo DORE , Jacques DUMARCHEZ , Rob EDGECOCK , Ugo GASTALDI , Simone GIANI , Sergej GNINENKO , Juan Jose GOMEZ CADENAS , Claus GOESSLING , Ghislain GREGOIRE , Vladimir GRICHINE , Alberto GUGLIELMI , Dimitar KOLEV , Lucie LINSSEN , Maria Teresa MUCIACCIA , Domizia ORESTANO , Vittorio PALLADINO , Jaap PANMAN , Fernanda PASTORE , Georgij SHELKOV , Petar TEMNIKOV , Roumen TSENOV , Francois VANNUCCI Dear Friedrich, dear friends of the board, You have all received the draft-agenda of the coming board meeting. I would like to reassure you that I have not been consulted before this draft was sent. Having read this text I have no other option than to resign as deputy of the spokesman. The appendix contains a number of statements for which I cannot take responsibility. Especially, I disapprove of the personal attack on our software project leader and analysis coordinator. These people have been working extremely hard to make HARP a success following the policy discussed and agreed by the full collaboration, including its leadership. Indeed, many others had been working with them equally hard, and also do feel addressed by the criticism. Since I also have not been consulted before the draft-agenda of the collaboration meeting was sent, and I also had to learn from the existence of "spokespersons roundtables" from a "stray carbon-copy" of a reply, de facto the institution of "deputy" had already not been very effective. With best regards, Jaap ENCL: fragment of the appendix of the draft board agenda =================== > Appendix: > ******** > > The spokesperson notes, with regret, that progress with physics > analysis is too slow. It is not understandable for the outside world, > why 3 1/2 years after the launch of the software project in August 1999, > and 6 months after the launch of the analysis project, the detector is > not yet calibrated and physics tracks are not reconstructed with good > and known performance. > > There is no more room for vague promises. HARP analysis needs less > theory-minded dogmatism and more data-driven pragmatism. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jaap Panman - Jaap.Panman@cern.ch European Laboratory for Particle Physics(CERN) - Geneva, Switzerland Phone: +41 22 767 3030 Fax: +41 22 767 3100